Anna Ivanovna

[ ah-nuh ee-vah-nuhv-nuh ]

/ ˈɑ nə iˈvɑ nəv nə /

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1693–1740, empress of Russia 1730–40.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Kendrick rapidly chants these last lines in repetition with Bilal and Anna Wise sing-shouting behind him, like a rallying cry.
Kendrick Lamar Shuts Down ‘The Colbert Report’ with Untitled Track|Charlise Ferguson|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Purely by chance, Anna Coren had landed in Sydney just as the chocolate shop siege began.
CNN's Overnight Sydney Star|Lloyd Grove|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.
Ex-Spy Anna Chapman, From Russia Unloved|Anna Nemtsova|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are few actresses these days that inspire more goodwill than Anna Kendrick.
Anna Kendrick on Feminism, #GamerGate, and the Celebrity Hacking Attack|Marlow Stern|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth|Brian Moynahan|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Today we did not proceed further than Mendoza (twelve miles), a still more insignificant place than St. Anna.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
In contrast to this we have the story of the ghost of a lady of title, who had been in her lifetime Princess Anna of Saxony.
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts|George Cruikshank
The other, the Campo de Santa Anna, is exceedingly extensive, but unfinished.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
One girl, Anna, tried secretly to pass her a wet handkerchief, but this Nora quickly caught from her and hid.
The value of a praying mother|Isabel C. Byrum